November 29, 2009
Another year, another marathon. After missing out last year I’ll be running London once again on the 25th April 2010. Which is great as it’s a wonderful race to be part of, amazing crowds and a lovely flat route. My training has kind of started. Well, having been off running for about five weeks I’m [...]
November 27, 2009
Some links for you: Talk About Local (alpha) – Great list of tips – only just noticed them. Shame on me. Great work from the Talk About Local team. Martha Lane Fox – Martha's Mission – digital inclusion – "I do not think it is acceptable that there is a community amongst the poorest people [...]
November 24, 2009
Some links for you: KML Generator for Edubase data | Pezholio – KML Generator for Edubase data – plots school locations for any UK local authority on a google map or creates a data file – very useful. Interactive maps help monitor recession geospatially « Observations – "We’ve produced a set of interactive maps to [...]
November 17, 2009
Some links for you: Gamer Camp Public Events – Birmingham – "Free Events for Gamemakers this Winter! Developers, animators, designers and programmers from the thriving West Midlands’ games industry are spoilt for choice this December as Gamer Camp and Game Central join forces to present a series of free-to-attend evening events across the region." Publication [...]
November 13, 2009
Date: 18 August 2009 To: Mohammed.Idrees@birmingham.gov.uk, Ansar.Ali.Khan@birmingham.gov.uk, Tariq.Khan@birmingham.gov.uk From: Dave Harte Subject: demolition/regeneration of houses on Naseby road, Alum Rock Dear all, I am a former resident of Hazelbeach Road in Ward End (B8 3HL) and am writing on behalf of my mother, still a resident there, about our increasing concern regarding the condition of [...]
November 5, 2009
Some links for you: 4 Ideas for Building Pirate Havens in #birmingham #bigdebate – Converjed – David Burden reflects on the Big Debate and contributes ideas on ways to attract the pirates. The Big debate – The Big Myths – Birmingham Post – Business Blog – Me, writing over at the Birmingham Post about the [...]
November 2, 2009
Some links for you: 69 Love Songs, Illustrated. – Excellent. Always a fave album of mine. Here it is in illustrated form… The Arts Council West Midlands DCD fund – some notes « ASH-10 – Pete Ashton gets behind the Arts Council's Digital Content Development fund and offers his services. A useful run-through of what [...]
Here’s my post in relation to The Big Debate event in Birmingham (2nd Nov). I was supposed to write this over on the Birmingham Post blog but I didn’t get round to starting it until the weekend before and then I discovered I lost the log-in to the Post’s blog. Ah well, here goes anyway: [...]